Greatest Quotes

I want to change things up a bit this week. I spend most of my time thinking about how to make people’s lives better. In my world I love to look at things that make me smile because my life is full of heartbreak and I consistently think of the horrible things in this human race.  Quotes from famous people that I love is something that makes my heart warm and makes things feel better for at least one day.

My first favorite person that lived on this earth a very short time was Jesus. Although He had many famous quotes these are a few that should make a heartfelt difference in everyone’s life:

“Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.”

This is a favorite of mine because I have seen and heard so many people wanting to chastise other people for a sin and they are guilty of so many sins themselves. We are all guilty of doing of doing this without even thinking sometimes. Sometimes when we do stop ourselves and think about what we are saying.

“For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?”

“Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.”

Albert Einstein was an interesting character. He was unique in many ways and the one that he was most noted for was that he was a genius. Like most people though, he had his problems. He had a hard time in school, so much so that he dropped out of high school and flunked his first college exam. As you can see, just because these things happened to Albert it did not stop him from continuing on and making a better life for himself. As you read his first quote, he was not insane. He would try the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results of course. He made mistakes because he tried new things because without mistakes you learn nothing at all. Keeping yourself safe and closed up you are not learning or anything else, you are just existing. You are not doing anything about your world to make it different. You are living for yourself and not for others. It is a lonely and selfish life. I like Einstein’s last quote that I wrote. To continue working on a problem and trying harder at it means to have veracity. It takes a lot to stay with a problem. It is much easier to give up and pass it on.

 “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil. But because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

Abraham Lincoln was probably the greatest presidents we ever had. He had much integrity and greatness that followed with him wherever he went. He loved the people in America and the people loved him until he wanted to make everyone equal. It was what was right and it was supposed to be we needed a person like President Lincoln to stand up for the people to get them to stop the tyranny. This first quote really scares me, especially in light of what has been happening lately with our budget and many other things.

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be beause we destroyed ourselves.”

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.”

I believe this quote was made during the time that Lincoln was trying to end slavery, but these are good words to live by. Without your consent no one can tell you what to do or make you feel less than you feel without your God given right. You own the right to your feelings and your body. Do not hand it over without a fight.

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”

This one is so cool when you really think about what it is saying. You will no longer have any enemies if you make a friend of them because the enemy is now a friend. Ha…no more fighting! So you angry evil people we all love you!

And my favorite:

“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”

Nelson Mandela:

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.”

“We can’t afford to be killing one another.”

Helen Keller was a person to be revered. She grew up in what I would call terrible conditions. Her mother thought that she was doing what was best by allowing her to do what she wanted to do because she was handicapped, but I just do not see it that way. No one should be allowed to act like an animal just because they cannot do for themselves as others can. They learn in different ways, but they still need to be taught the basics of right and wrong and how to do things for themselves without behaving rudely. Once there was someone in the household that could help Helen, it was obvious that she was a highly intelligent girl and could be taught anything. Do not underestimate anyone just because it “appears” like they do not have what they need to do the right thing or that they are too young. Treat them with exceptional intelligence and they may surprise you.

“The best and most beautiful thing in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”

“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”

This last quote I do love for it seems that Helen understood life and death much more than most people.

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”

I have been looking up many different people that I have admired and I am in awe that each one has some kind of reference to God or the Holy Bible. Their Beliefs were strong and it saddens me that many of our leaders today do not have that same belief system.  Theodore Roosevelt was another one of those powerful leaders with a strong belief.

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”

Even Ronald Regan was talking about God in a quote. What he said in one of his quote actually frightens me because they are trying to take the actual words off of our money that we for so many years had it so eloquently written on. This very country was founded on the fact that we are to worship as we wish and now we are not able to do what we have done since the beginning of this country because a few people are offended?

 “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”

“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”

“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”

What are some of your favorite quotes?